On January 20th, 2025, a time-tested process of peaceably turning over the reins of power in the world’s oldest functioning democracy, from one Chief Executive to another, will take place. Not that there isn’t some drama proceeding this event, as has often been the case from the founding of the nation under the current Constitution. One only has Continue Reading
Revival 2024
Ramparts has been silent for some time. Personal priorities and external events stole the self imposed discipline needed to drive creative essays developed in solitary, to be read by only a hardy few. Excuses aside, sometimes it takes just a little jolt to get the fires burning again. An old loyal reader in casual conversation stated, he and his wife Continue Reading
22 December 1808
Public events sometimes exceed the real time shared experience to take on in retrospect a certain transcendent quality. As the event subsequently becomes elevated to an iconic cultural status, the number of people who actually were “there” and their memories of it, are exceeded by the ever larger group of people who over time tie the event so fundamentally to their Continue Reading
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Hell Comes For Ukraine
The cliff like 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War helped propagate a mythic conclusion in the West that the battle between competing versions of humanity and destiny had been won in favor of “liberal democracy”. The illustrative argument was put forth by Francis Fukuyama in his treatise The End of History and the Last Continue Reading
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Lincoln Holds Up At 213
We are in a time of deconstructive destruction. Marxian critical theory, the specific economic radical thought that bluntly separates the world into oppressors and the oppressed, and formulates the process of unmasking and liberation from the ideology that justifies keeping the later oppressed, has morphed, for a myriad of today’s political agendas, into a tidy weapon to destroy history’s icons and Continue Reading
People We Should Know – #36 – Éric Zemmour
A story that resonates with American voters is a developing saga on the French political landscape. In 2015, a business celebrity figure with no political lineage or identifiable establishment support headed down an escalator in New York City directly into the maelstrom of American establishment politics, showing little tact and much disdain for the establishment, political instincts antithetical to traditional Continue Reading
Shelby Foote and the American Iliad
A quant relic of a long ago age that in preceding decades was quite commonplace among small towns throughout the eastern half of the American continent, is a now rarely witnessed event – a civil war battle re-enactment. Local and regional commonfolk would take the opportunity to meet in bivouac, dress in period clothing, utilize uniforms and arms consistent with Continue Reading
9/11 Twenty Years Later – The Reckoning
The harrowing image even twenty years later sears with heat from distant memory. On a beautiful, crystal clear morning, September 11, 2001 , a vicious gash of reality was lanced across America’s psyche by determined Islamic terrorists orchestrated by an international collective looking to decapitate America’s confidence and vitality in a ruthless and brilliant multi-pronged attack. America’s smug and lax Continue Reading
The Last Afghanistand
An ignominious defeat awaits America in Afghanistan, with harrowing echoes to the calamitous last days of the United States’ previous 20 year effort to militarily sustain an unsustainable government – in South Vietnam. President Biden, true to his democrat roots of never letting a crisis go to waste, has leveled his careful and experienced gaze on the self induced Continue Reading
Calvin Coolidge and the 4th of July
In the early morning hours of August 3rd, 1923, in the unincorporated hamlet of Plymouth Notch, Vermont, the local justice of the peace and notary public John Coolidge lit a small kerosene lamp in the small front parlor of his home. The lamp provided critical illumination for an epochal event, as the little abode was without electricity or telephone, Continue Reading